Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/20/14:42:06
Hi Eugene,
you may need a large-file aware (non-cygwin) "split",
scp the pieces using wildcard, and cat together at
the remote end
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [SMTP:starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 16:56
> To: Eugene Cheng
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: OpenSSH 3.1p1 scp problem with large files
>
> On Wednesday 19 Jun 02, Eugene Cheng writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have problems scp'ing files >1GB from a Windows2000 box running
> OpenSSH
> > 3.1p1 under Cygwin. It copies some small percentage of the file and
> then
> > dies with a "Lost connection". The remote box is a SUN box running
> > Solaris 8 with OpenSSH. My test file is 9GB in size and I have gotten
> 670MB
> > of the file copied at the most. Could this be related to the df
> mis-reporting
> > bug?
> >
> > The file copies ok to other systems, just not to this Cygwin box. I've
> tried
> > multiple versions of OpenSSH without success.
>
> Cygwin does not support "large files" (> 2GB?). Sorry.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
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